I keep wanting to say "Red 5, standing by...," into the microphone.
A word of warning: I'm about to plummet into slithery, sub-zero dorkariffic territory here, so proceed at your own risk.
When I got home today, before I set all this Skype stuff up, I turned on the TV, and the kids' show "Yu-Gi-Oh" was on. I became transfixed. Allow me to explain, first, that I have a sad, secret love of all things Pokemon, and yes, I was even a bit teary-eyed when they fooled us all into thinking that Bulbasaur had died. Those bastards! One of my favorite cartoonists, a bloke named Norm Scott (http://www.ape-law.com/evilmonkey/), described all this in his webjournal a couple of years ago, but I just experienced it anew today. So, to the uninitiated out there, Yu-Gi-Oh is the natural successor to Pokemon. Pokemon was first a video game, then a cartoon, and then evolved into a card game, much like "Magic the Gathering". And thusly, it blew the minds of little kids' EVERYWHERE.
In Yu-Gi-Oh, we have Yugi, a kid (maybe 11 or 12 years old) with a stupidly deep, resonant man's voice who plays cards against several other ridiculously Japanese-d characters (I'm not being racially insensitive here - this is an American cartoon designed to LOOK like a Japanese cartoon - reference the nearby picture). Seriously, yo.When the characters play cards against each other, the creatures on the cards come to life in a specially-designed card-playing arena, and they beat the hell out of each other, but only after a lenghty explanation of the various powers and effects of each card. These explanations are great, too, because it's often a lo-ooo-ong voiceover that takes place over a perfectly static image. Yeah, it's pretty much a TV show about watching OTHER people use THEIR imaginations while THEY are playing a game that YOU TOO CAN OWN, cheap cheap!!!
As I type this, I am but a few feet from two boxes full of Star Wars toys that bring back sweet , sweet memories of when I was suckered by kid-oriented marketing ploys.
Bah! I loved it, and I'm gonna watch it every day now, financial morals be damned! Woohoo!
Today's best line: "My grandpa's deck has no pathetic cards,but it DOES have the unstoppable Exodia!"
I'm gonna pull that on Julia when she least expecting it.
"No, baby, I didn't do the dishes, but I DO have the unstoppable Exodia!!! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-haaaa!"
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so this is a horrible and dark secret i could have done without. You should take such things to your grave. We can no longer be friends. My nephew (he is 10) loves pokemon and he is looking for a friend. All of his friends have shunned him.
ReplyDeleteYou paid good money for an Elton John boxed set. Also, you could draw a complete schematic of the Enterprises A, B, E, and the DS9 station on a moment's notice.
ReplyDeleteNuff said, butthead.